The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-17
IN CITY AND COUNTY
DASHEs HERE AND THERE BIZ OUR
REPORTERS. "

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DASHEs HERE AND THERE BIZ OUR
REPORTERS.
Last Weeks eOocurances I'm. City and
County Narrated in Condens-
ed Paragraphs.
The Merchants Hotel opened Monday.
s - We understand new weekly will be
started Ia Winston. ~
Mr.. Wade Bynum LEFT last week for
Birmingham, where he will remain several
weeks.
There will be services in Broad Street
Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at
o'clock.
Miss Bette 4Douthit, Of Pennington,
Davie county, is visiting Misses Dobsons of
this city.
The Revenue collections at the Win
ston office, during the month OF January,
amounted to $52,623.
Read on editorial page what the Re-
publican of August It'll, 1884, says Of its re-
cent nominee for Judge.
We were glad to note every street
lamp fairly ablaze one night this week as
we walked down the street.
Rev. J. R. Jones, editor of the Leader,
Bush Hill, N. c., occupied the pulpit at the
M. P. church Sunday night.
Our subscription list has already show
ed healthy increase as result of the
kindly efforts of the Republicans on our be-
half
-Messrs Jas. A. Gray and J. G. Buxton
went to Greensboro last Thursday to attend
the meeting of the stockholders of n. G. NJ.
R. r.
Sales at the warehouses for the past
few days have been very good, under the
circumstances, and prices show little i'm
provement.
Those rocks that have been deposited
along Fifth street are very great improve
ment, as the mud is terrible along there
during wet SPELL
New advertisements of V. 0. Thomp-
son and Cherish, Senseman Co., were
handed in too late for this issue, but will
appear in our next
Prof. E. w. Linebaek, of Salem, will
start next week on an ATTENDED tour through
the Southesn States to fill series of pro-
fessional engagements.
Miss Mamie Perkins, says the Watch
man, one of Winston's most beautiful and
accomplished young ladies, is in Salisbury,
the guest of Miss Annie Blackmer
DIR. J. w. Griffith, one of Greensboro's
leading dentists, and Mr.. w. L. Hunter,
partner in one of Greensboro's largest drug
stores, spent Monday visiting in this city.
-Messrs. Ashcraft & Owens, always
ahead in enterprise, have ordered new
electric bell telephone, which will be run
from their drug store to Mr.. Owens resi-
deace in Salem.
We are pleased to note that our es-
teemed townsman, Mr.. Lewis Williams has
yielded to an inclination he says he has
long experienced, and decided to enter the
profession of the law.
If Mr. Geo. A. Griffith will inform us
what his post office is, we will cheerfully
attend to his case, but it is about as easy to
find needle in hay stack as one mans
name in four thousand.
Mr.. G. A. Ashcraft, father of Mr.. H.
C. Ashcraft, of this city, and representative
In the Legislature from Union county, spent
Sunday and Monday here visiting the fami-
ly of Mr.. II. C. Ashcraft.
The Greensboro Workman, of the 18th
inst, says: We were glad to meet in this
office Mr.. James Jones, of Winston, who
formerly lived here. He and his family are
on q visit and will remain until Monday.
- Messrs. Hinshaw & Meaearis insert in
this issue handsome double column adver-
tisement, from which you can gain some
interesting and useful facts with regard to
their mammoth wholesale and retail estab-
lishment
Rayle, who have for some time past been
employed as compositers on the Twiny- City
Daily, left Monday morning for Charlotte,
where they will take positions on the
Chronicle.
A young man who was visiting this
city few days ago, was standing on the
corner talking with our local editor, and
looking down the street and seeing the
cupola on Browns warehouse, inquired
what church that was
Mr.. A. Fl. Eller, one of Winston's
young attorneys just entering the bar, made
his maiden speech Saturday in defence Of
A. G. Snipes. His effort was able ant
pertinent, and foreshadows brilliant ant
successful future for him.